I do remember seeing the film Darkest Hour a year or so ago, which seemed to depict a similarly stagnant and stubborn political landscape. During that time, I didn’t really get to know a whole lot about British politics, so most of what I do know comes from films or other books I’ve read, which may or may not be accurate. Q #3: Are the British culture & government really as stagnant & stubborn as depicted in Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy?Ī: I’ll do my best to answer this, though I don’t live in Britain, and have only been once, when I studied abroad from January-May in college. However, according to Ken Follett’s website, Sony Pictures and ABC are working on making it into a TV series: Q #2: Did anyone make a movie about Ken Follett’s C entury Trilogy?Ī: Not yet, as far as I am aware. Ken Follett also consults experts on the various time periods he writes about – you can see who he consults in the acknowledgements section at the back of each book. He only places the real characters in situations or locations where they either are known to have been at a specific time, or could have been at a specific time according to public knowledge. In each of them he uses a mixture of fiction characters with real characters. Also, Ken Follett puts a little disclaimer in the back of all the books. I don’t think he would have done so if they weren’t historically accurate. I have a friend who is a history buff and he’s the one who recommended them to me. Q #1: How historically accurate are Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy novels?Ī: I’d say they are very historically accurate. Here are the most interesting questions about The Century Trilogy. I write epic fantasy and have dabbled in children’s science fiction.Īnyway, let’s get to the Ken Follett books.

There is even a C entury Trilogy family tree you can probably find online, and in some of the books.īy the way, if you’re wondering about who I am, I’m an author from Portland, OR. All of the books follow a couple different families, through the century. As of writing this, there is not a Fall of Giants movie, or a The Century Trilogy movie, but there may be one in the future! The second book is called Winter of the World, and it is the best book of the three in my opinion. These are Ken Follett books, and they are really good in my opinion. I’m veering away from sci-fi/fantasy this month to look at a trilogy of historical fiction books. This post is a little different than my usual posts.

Welcome! This post is part of my Most Interesting Questions series, which means I’ll be answering the most interesting questions I can find or think of on Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy.

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